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TERESA COLLEGE
Bauan, Batangas
Integrated Basic Education Department
SY 2021 – 2022
Name of Attendee: SALAZAR, IVAN A.
Date attended: November 20, 2021
Title of the Webinar: Advent: Preparing and Encountering the Lord who Comes
Speaker: Fr. Paul Marquez, SSP

NARRATIVE REPORT
Let’s turn to the central passage: “And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among
us.” The word used in Greek here for “dwelt” is eskenosen, which means literally, “pitched his
tent among us.” Don’t read that in a folksy way. It is meant to call to mind the tabernacle of the
temple. The Word becoming flesh is God coming to dwell definitively in his world, undoing the
effects of sin, and turning it into what it was always meant to be. Notice, too, what we see in the
wake of this tabernacling: “And we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of
grace and truth.” So, John is telling us that Jesus is the new Eden, the new temple, the restored
creation, the realization of God’s intention for the world. And our purpose is not simply to gaze
on this fact with wonder, but rather to enter its power: “From his fullness we have all received,
grace in place of grace.”